Proposal to Enhance University Students’ Motivation to Switch to a Morning-Oriented Lifestyle with a Community Approach

Most of the university students in Japan think that a morning-oriented lifestyle will be better for their health and studies. However, some of them do not have the custom to wake up before 9 am and have breakfast. Especially skipping breakfast is considered to influence badly to their stats of absence and concentration to their classes before noon. Therefore, our study’s purpose is to develop the method to promote them to switch their lifestyle to a morning-oriented lifestyle. Our proposal method consists of following 2 activities; 1) logging time of their waking up and going bed and 2) engaging an online community activity including reporting having breakfast every morning and so on. In order to examine the effectiveness of our proposal, experiment was conducted with university students not having a morning-oriented lifestyle. As a result, our method appears to be effective to let participant have a morning-oriented lifestyle. Furthermore, it seems that the settings that a member who have had such a lifestyle already is in the community as a normal member who standing same place with other members, meaning not a leader, will be more effective.